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Reclamation Lyrics
these are our demands: we want control of our bodies. decisions will now be ours. you can carry out your noble actions, we will carry our noble scars. reclamation. no one here is asking, no one here is asking, but there is a question of trust. you will do what looks good to you on paper, we will do what we must. return, return, return. carry my body.
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This song is about a persons right to die via Euthanasia, as the band said themselves. Many sucides take place due to insufferable or terminal illness.
i think this song could be about war and politicians using soldiers as cannon fodder to achieve unjust objectives and the usual distrust about going to war for which the consequences are always the same
This is a pro-choice song. He is singing for women to reclaim their bodies and make choices as they see fit, not politicians.
This is a pro-choice song. He is singing for women to reclaim their bodies and make choices as they see fit, not politicians.
Yeah, I agree with rer09. It's about women (forcefully) reclaiming their bodies and their sovereignty from moral crusaders who don't know them or anything about them. Politics and real life often require quite different approaches just to get through: "do what looks good to you on paper, we will do what we must."
P-R-O C=H=0=I=C=E=!
The scars are the circumcision scars carried by so many American men.
The nobel actions and things that look good on paper are the justifications given by parents and medical institutions for violating someone's body.
Reclamation is foreskin restoration in a literal sense